stone curlew

English Thesaurus

1. large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird,
definition	:	any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	burhinus, genus burhinus,
definition	:	type genus of the Burhinidae: stone curlews (noun.animal)